Pros

• Clear and unnoticeable when installed
• Excellent scratch resistance
• iPod easily fits in dock when installed
• Accessory holes and switch openings align perfectly
• Corners stay affixed to device long-term

Cons

• Very challenging installation
• Difficult to set
• Adhesive dries quickly making removal and reset tough

The Bottom Line
If you’re looking for good protection against the elements around your iPod that will keep your music player looking new, then InvisibleShield is a good investment. If you have patience and a skilled hand, then you can overlook the complicated installation and enjoy long-term protection of your musical device.

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Recommended
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Full Review
While pricing continues to fall for most music players, at over $200 a pop, these things are still not what one would consider “cheap”. If you’re one that cares about your hard earned money and wishes to keep your devices looking as new as possible, then you’ll want to protect it with something. Cases and pouches are popular choices but many just want something non-instrusive. As of late, clear “vinyl” skins are becoming another popular selection in the choice department and InvisibleShield is one such choice for your iPod or other device supported by Zagg.

Having experience with other skins, we read the directions of InvisibleShield familiar with all the suggestions and precautions. Following the advice of the accompanying directions, we quickly found the InvisibleShield a very difficult skin to apply to our 120 GB iPod Classic. The fit isn’t exact, giving you some “wiggle” room but even with this forgiveness, we still found ourselves needing to pull the skin off and try again. This lead to another difficulty in which the adhesive dries quickly making it tough to pull it off the device. One fear from this procedure is that of stretching the skin and thus making it too large. Thankfully, this didn’t happen to us. It would have been easier if the adhesive would not dry so quickly to allow for moving the skin a smudge here or a smidge there with just pressure from your fingers as we’ve seen on other skins. It makes for setting much easier.

After much removal and reset steps, we finally got the front of the skin on our iPod sans the ClickWheel skin which are seperate steps. Once satisfied with our application, we flipped the iPod and proceeded to place the back cover on. Having a bit experience at this point, we only had to remove the skin and reset once. The corners where a charm to apply and they stayed in position never peeling off. The openings for the Hold switch, earphone jack, and dock connector matched up easily and what we’d just call near perfect. We elected to keep the ClickWheel protection off.

After a couple of weeks lodged in our glove compartment of a Ford F-250, the protective skin stayed affixed perfectly. With the fluctuation of heat (from the heater of the vehicle) to bitter cold winter nights in the garage, the protective clear coat never showed signs of coming off. An added bonus of the vinyl-like substance is its “grip” on things preventing it from sliding all about. This made for a pleasant “feature” allowing the iPod to stay in its given position within the glove compartment.

Overall
Zagg has made a really nice protective skin with the InvisibleShield. It lines up well on the device and is nearly unnoticeable when applied. Now it’s getting it applied that is the only thing one must overcome to enjoy this protective adhesive to its fullest. No pain no gain, right?

Price: $24.95 (Full Coverage)

Platform: iPod Classic 120 GB (Tested; Other iPods and devices supported)

Website: InvisibleShield for iPod 120 GB (Zagg)

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